Spy Chief to Warn of ‘Relentless’ Russian Cyber Attacks on UK and Europe
Anne Keast-Butler says Russia is scaling up hybrid attacks as GCHQ warns cybersecurity must become 10 times more urgent.
- On Wednesday, GCHQ Director Anne Keast-Butler will deliver her inaugural annual lecture at Bletchley Park, warning that Russia is "relentlessly targeting critical infrastructure, democratic processes, supply chains and public trust" in Britain and Europe.
- Since Russia's 2022 invasion of Ukraine, Moscow has escalated what critics call a "hybrid war" against Western countries; last year GCHQ reported a 50% spike in major cyberattacks targeting Jaguar Land Rover and Marks and Spencer.
- GCHQ has been "disrupting Russia's efforts to smuggle Western tech, fending off cyber attacks, and countering reckless sabotage and assassination attempts," while Keast-Butler urges action "from boardrooms to living rooms" to make cyber security "10 times more urgent."
- Keast-Butler will stress UK-US intelligence partnership importance amid strains under President Donald Trump's America First policy, with her speech marking the 80th anniversary of the 1946 signals intelligence agreement founding the Five Eyes partnership.
- China's rapid artificial intelligence advances have created what Keast-Butler describes as "the ground beneath our feet" shifting, leaving Western allies with a "narrowing window" to maintain technological edge as Russia escalates hostile activity in a "gray zone" below war threshold.
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